Possible Clues:

• Japanese stringed instrument
• Instrument played with a bachi
• It's in a mess in Japan with strings attached
• The boy is beginning to have strings attached 31 across
• How Samuel is with the headless fowl with strings attached
• The boy is starting to have strings attached
• Three-stringed instrument
• Banjo's Japanese cousin
• It's a sin all the same to play with it in Japan with strings attached
• Banjolike Japanese instrument